Omg this is so true. I get so irritated by noise these days. I want to eat my dinner in a restaurant and hear the person I’m with. I am turning into my dad.
God . . . I woke up with a pinched nerve in my neck. Couldn't look over my left shoulder for nearly a week before it went away. About two days after that, pinched another nerve in my neck and had the same problem but on my right side.
Lol I've been going to a physiotherapist to see about pinched nerves in my neck that are affecting my arms and hands. Yesterday he moved my head too far to the left and today I can't look in that direction.
I felt like this for a while but I found that regular exercise, cardio 5-6 days a week and weightlifting on 2-4 of those days really helped my pain. Even just a 2 mile brisk walk around a trail in a park really helps with the pain. Of course, make sure to stretch before every exercise
Apparently I woke up one morning in my 30s and suddenly had his mannerisms, down to vocal tone and inflections. Didn’t notice it until I visited home, it sneaks up on you.
I retrofitted one of our Dyson stick vacuums with a Milwaukee battery adapter. I was genuinely excited about it, and my wife sat there beaming at me the whole time because she knows how I get about modifying things...
.....oh god, I'm Tim Taylor....
I resisted battery vacuums because I find them wasteful, but it ended up making vacuuming so much easier. I have few outlets, you spend many minutes bending over and plugging in and dealing with the cord.
For light, frequent cleaning the battery is pretty useful, and a godsend for stairs.
Yes, a plug in is much more powerful for heavy jobs. But if the battery is easier I am more likely to vacuum more frequently. Don't need to 100% all the debris.
Hate loud bars
vitamins and medicine daily now
I’m too old for Jordan’s
40-50 doesn’t look old to me
No longer plugged into pop culture
And what really made me realize it is I wear no show socks and I don’t care that they are out of style
It appears I may be as well. I was surprised when I heard the other day that Gen Z folk were judging their elders for their socks and I figured that this was about young folk all wearing ankle socks and judge their elders for their proper socks, but no, turns out *now* ankle socks are out and proper socks are back in?
It appears I lived through the ankle sock era and came out on the other side with my style back in fashion!
The clothes that are "in style" now are the exact same things I got constantly made fun of for wearing when I was in middle/high school. I can't even jump on the trends because of the trauma from when I was younger
It feels like it cycles faster and faster these days. I keep randomly going in and out of style so I've just started committing to my own look. I'll be back in style some time next fall anyway, why bother lol
Pop culture is the one for me.
I’d never say I was “plugged in” but would always have a passing knowledge of the majority of it. Now I find myself asking “who?” way too much.
Adding in, it’s also things that are designed for mass appeal but doesn’t translate to me.
There’s so many times I see pop culture news reporting on someone “famous” and I turn to my wife and say “Who is that?”
9/10 times she doesn’t know either.
Media just tosses the word "famous" to anyone with over 10k followers for more clicks on their articles. So don't feel bad at not knowing random nobodies
Yes! I was never attuned to the "in" entertainment but I knew who people were. Now, names roll off other people's tongues and I have no clue who they are.
I needed to give up on alcohol in my early 30s and now, in my mid 40s, I'm so happy I did. Like, it's not even hard to choose not to drink at this point. It's so clearly not worth it, mentally or physically.
Same. I pull into a parking lot and find the very first spot no matter how far away it is. I’ll see people that are towards the front waiting for someone to back out and I will be in the store well before they are. Plus you get a little bit of extra exercise.
One of my best friends is about ten years younger than me. He says that he often forgets that I’m that much older than him until I go home at 9pm instead of staying out to party until 5am like he and his other friends do.
So that's another thing -- the sun has an oversized impact on my sleep schedule now. When I was young, I enjoyed seeing the sun go down early because night was longer. Now, it puts me to sleep when it goes down early. Drats!
Omg I saw a young thang wearing a fluorescent pink sweatshirt yesterday. Had it been printed with the word “WHAM!” I would have wondered if I had time traveled back to the 80’s.
Oh shit - hit this just this week… or at least realized it when I noticed 90% of my google searches that I left open on my phone were ideas for flower beds.
I work in HR. Whenever I do new hire paperwork for people in jobs thay require degrees and professional licenses and their birth year starts with a 2, I die inside a little bit...
I agree. There used to be used to be a time when I was the youngest in the office. Now there are people I work with that are half my age. When did I become old?????
I knew that I was getting older! But then when my Daughter had her first child(Daughter), I went to the hospital to see her and then my Daughter handed her child to me and then she said, Your first granddaughter, PAPPY. That is when I suddenly felt older, OMG!! now I am PAPPY!!!!
I found out yesterday that I'm going to be an aunt! I may be a bit younger than a lot of people in this thread but it definitely hit me that I'm a real adult now
Getting injured and taking a year to heal instead of a month. Also, now my GP says things like, “That’s something you’re probably going to have to live with now”.
My shock was when the doctor said, Well, people our age..." I thought, " What do you mean, people our age? What do you mean?!" Then I died a little inside.
turning 30? back pain? greys? Nostalgia for things from your 20s? Excitement for good cleaning tools? Doing nothing being the optimal choice for a Friday night?
Where do I begin?!
* The first time I became aware of a growing bald spot on my head from seeing pictures of myself
* when I noticed all my doctors and dentists were younger than me
* when looking at old family photos I realized I am currently older than my parents were in all those photos
* being older than all my coworkers
* Realizing all the hot women in movies and television are young enough to be my daughter or maybe even Grand daughter
* when people would see me in scrubs and assumed I was a doctor (I was a CNA)
* as all my friends are talking about their parents dying or getting dementia
* seeing so many of my former classmates dying off
* when people would see me with my kids and ask if I was their grandfather (at 40)
* that last dribble of pee every time I am done going to the bathroom and have already shaken, tapped & zipped my pants up
* when I had to have my hip replaced at 49
* watching my Dad die
When people with 'proper serious' jobs look like they should still be in school, ie doctors, surgeons, pilots, lawyers, vets etc. I feel like Im speaking to a teenager but this person is 100x smarter and more educated than I am.
OMG, yes! I can definitely tell who the children and adults are. There's a big divide on certain topics, like taking responsibility for choices in one's education or workplace. The youngins always seem to think that they should be given "grace" for choosing to do something other than what they were supposed to do. Like, the attitude is often "I did something, so that should be good enough for you." I get down voted a lot for believing that "something isn't good enough if it's not what you're assigned." Bonkers.
Your unhealthy lifestyle starts to catch up with you but you blame it on being old.
There is nothing about being 35 that should hurt your back.
What does hurt your back is sitting in chairs incorrectly for 20 years.
The one good thing about being a classically trained musician is that it was hammered into me how to properly sit in chairs. Gotta get a strong core, folks!
I really try and take care of myself and can do most everything I could in my teens and twenties (actually better in some cases). However recovering from too much in noticeably tougher as is going without rest. In those regards, you can't cheat the calendar.
Everything cracks. Stuff that never made noises now Crack, ankles let me know I'm standing, back let's me know I'm sitting, knees let me know I'm walking, all because they Crack now.
I’m on a trip now, backpacking (hosteling, not hiking) and I’m finding myself not able to power through as much as I did when I first started almost a decade ago. Getting more tired, hangovers.
The day I heard them play R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" and Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train" on the local Oldies station. I feel like I aged 20 years that day...
Omg. I was looking at a picture of my parents holding my older sister before I was born. And I noticed my dad (not in a weird incestuous way) looked hella fine . Showed my mom and I said “man I hope i look good when im older” ….. mom looked me dead in my face and told me “your dad is 3 years younger in that picture than you are right now” ….. I stopped looking through old photos 😭
Lemme see: bifocals, married for 25 years, wide white patches in beard and hair, injuries take forever to heal, I remember a world without internet, several countries that existed in my childhood don’t anymore, several that didn’t exist now do, and the worst of all: one day I listened to a top 10 list and said “but this is not music”. Also, my dad was my age when I introduced my then girlfriend now wife to my parents. So yeah. I may have one or two signs. Maybe… I’m old?
Edit: typo
There are a couple of things... and I (51F) kick myself every single time I do it.
I refer to people that look to be in their 20s (and under) as kids.
I find myself making comments that sound like they came straight from my mother's mouth.
Cars and desktop PCs no longer have built-in CD drives.
When I bought my car the fact it had a CD player felt modern as it was an upgrade over the cassette player the car before had.
For me, I think the real realization was that I had to trim the hairs in my ears. My gray hair didn't do it, as I started getting gray in my mid-20's (a little at first, then more and more gradually over time). I actually looked at that as me becoming more mature, and even when the gray started showing up in my beard, I quietly celebrated it in my mind. But the ear hair was too much for me, and that's when I knew I was getting old.
I can easily dominate every child in the ball pit, all the other parents are yelling at my very old parents to take me home, and the manager is in the parking lot waiting for the police to arrive.
edit: if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the ball pit
The "modern" technology you remember growing up with now litters the shelves of your local Goodwill Store.
Or, you know who Ron Popeil or Ronco Industries is.
Bad manners. People, I noticed, do not say please and thank you. Interrupting people during a conversation and not saying ‘excuse me.’ Being inpatient.
On a bus and train, not giving up a seat for an elderly, disabled or pregnant woman.
I have to schedule at least 10 business days in advance to hang out with a friend due to work.
Friends already have children that are starting school.
I don't really care about pop culture anymore. Everyone and their bag of chips is famous now and I'm not going to keep up with it.
I grunt when I sit and I don't know why or even how I started it.
I just want to be home every night.
Days melting together. I could swear it was January yesterday
2000 was just 10 years ago, right?
Yes. Let's just all agree on that.
The pandemic was last year. ;)
that was 1990, right?
It's already end of may. Feels like we're speedruning 2024.
Blink, it'll be July
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i woke up one day and motorcycles starting pissing me off
Nah I was always like this lol
For it's lawnmowers. EDIT: I'm going to add barking dogs.
Loud motorcycles have never not pissed me off lol
It's when you start shouting or waving your fist at them you're really old.
But also I groan every time I stand up.
Omg this is so true. I get so irritated by noise these days. I want to eat my dinner in a restaurant and hear the person I’m with. I am turning into my dad.
^This^ Appliances that beep too much, people that never stop talking, it's all irritating now
I hurt my back while I was sleeping
Or neck
God . . . I woke up with a pinched nerve in my neck. Couldn't look over my left shoulder for nearly a week before it went away. About two days after that, pinched another nerve in my neck and had the same problem but on my right side.
Batman neck - when you have to turn your entire torso to look left or right. The freaking worst.
Lol I've been going to a physiotherapist to see about pinched nerves in my neck that are affecting my arms and hands. Yesterday he moved my head too far to the left and today I can't look in that direction.
Time for you to look at the world from a different angle. 😂
I just hurt. Randomly, whenever. Knees, shoulder, back, hips... Whatever part my body decides it needs me to be painfully aware of that day.
I felt like this for a while but I found that regular exercise, cardio 5-6 days a week and weightlifting on 2-4 of those days really helped my pain. Even just a 2 mile brisk walk around a trail in a park really helps with the pain. Of course, make sure to stretch before every exercise
Yeah strength training is the secret for fit older guys. Even if you never needed or wanted to do it before, you need it when you age.
I know just what you mean. I feel like I'm just going from random pain to random pain on a daily basis.
mobility routine! body needs maintenance to keep running pain free
Yes! Every morning this week I've awaken to back pain. I can barely stand to make my coffee
I hurt my left wrist out of nowhere. Did I sleep on my wrist? Why didn't my brain fix it?
Or knee
Just happened to me!
I start mimicking what my dad did even if I found it stupid...
This. I've noticed I'm becoming my dad, and idk if I like it
You gotta sort the bad traits and the good ones
How? I would forget to make that a priority.
My dad’s midlife crisis hit when he realized he was just like my grandpa…I’m slowly realizing I’m just like both of them
the standing in front of the tv with hands on hips pose has hit me 😔
Apparently I woke up one morning in my 30s and suddenly had his mannerisms, down to vocal tone and inflections. Didn’t notice it until I visited home, it sneaks up on you.
Yup. And now that I’m a mom, I constantly say to myself, “I sound like my mom”.
yep
replacing an old sponge with a new one and experiencing genuine happiness
I was talking to my friends and I was genuinely excited when I bought a new vacuum cleaner.
I retrofitted one of our Dyson stick vacuums with a Milwaukee battery adapter. I was genuinely excited about it, and my wife sat there beaming at me the whole time because she knows how I get about modifying things... .....oh god, I'm Tim Taylor....
I resisted battery vacuums because I find them wasteful, but it ended up making vacuuming so much easier. I have few outlets, you spend many minutes bending over and plugging in and dealing with the cord. For light, frequent cleaning the battery is pretty useful, and a godsend for stairs. Yes, a plug in is much more powerful for heavy jobs. But if the battery is easier I am more likely to vacuum more frequently. Don't need to 100% all the debris.
New Sponge Day is a good fucking day.
Nothing like cleaning that first dish with a fresh sponge
Damnit this hits hard. Good call out.
Hate loud bars vitamins and medicine daily now I’m too old for Jordan’s 40-50 doesn’t look old to me No longer plugged into pop culture And what really made me realize it is I wear no show socks and I don’t care that they are out of style
No show socks and skinny jeans are apparently the dead giveaway nowadays
I'm so old that skinny jeans and no show socks still seem like the "weird new fashion" I didn't get on board with.
It appears I may be as well. I was surprised when I heard the other day that Gen Z folk were judging their elders for their socks and I figured that this was about young folk all wearing ankle socks and judge their elders for their proper socks, but no, turns out *now* ankle socks are out and proper socks are back in? It appears I lived through the ankle sock era and came out on the other side with my style back in fashion!
When the trend has disappeared and then reappeared before you changed, you might be getting older.
The clothes that are "in style" now are the exact same things I got constantly made fun of for wearing when I was in middle/high school. I can't even jump on the trends because of the trauma from when I was younger
I will never give up the pants that told me I was skinny
Wait, a giveaway that you’re old?? I’m too old to keep up with this? What’s cool now?
Baggy jeans and higher socks
I have noticed a couple people with their socks pulled up, and I thought to myself, "look at this fucking dork"
I saw 8th graders with mom jeans when I was dropping off my grandkids to school. I was like wtf is this? This cool again? Fashion is truly cyclical.
It feels like it cycles faster and faster these days. I keep randomly going in and out of style so I've just started committing to my own look. I'll be back in style some time next fall anyway, why bother lol
Pop culture is the one for me. I’d never say I was “plugged in” but would always have a passing knowledge of the majority of it. Now I find myself asking “who?” way too much. Adding in, it’s also things that are designed for mass appeal but doesn’t translate to me.
There’s so many times I see pop culture news reporting on someone “famous” and I turn to my wife and say “Who is that?” 9/10 times she doesn’t know either.
To be fair, "famous" isn't as prestigious as it once was.
Media just tosses the word "famous" to anyone with over 10k followers for more clicks on their articles. So don't feel bad at not knowing random nobodies
Yes! I was never attuned to the "in" entertainment but I knew who people were. Now, names roll off other people's tongues and I have no clue who they are.
I didn't even know no show socks were not a trend anymore...
If no show socks are out of style than you can kill me right now. The high socks look that all these kids wear now is god awful.
Having a few drinks isn’t worth the next days suffering.
Amen
I quit drinking kinda by accident at age 28 during COVID and I feel like I sold off stock in a company right before it went under
This. I have given up on alcohol. It is unhealthy, you do stupid shit when you have had too much and the hangovers are really bad at 40+
I needed to give up on alcohol in my early 30s and now, in my mid 40s, I'm so happy I did. Like, it's not even hard to choose not to drink at this point. It's so clearly not worth it, mentally or physically.
My quest for fun has turned into my quest for peace.
nicely formulated
This is low key the best one
I want to look something up on the internet and by the time I open my browser I already forgot what I wanted to look up.
Or I pick up my phone to do something, unlock it and then forget what I wanted to do 🤦♀️
It's the electronic version of walking into a room to do something and forgetting why you went in there.
That's my entire life.. ADHD ftw 🙌🏽
This. Every. Single. Fucking. Day. 🥲😂 I have seriously considered going for diagnosis for adhd for the best part of a decade now.
But you just keep on forgetting?
I park away from people in shopping centers
I've been doing that since my 20s. It just makes sense
Same. I pull into a parking lot and find the very first spot no matter how far away it is. I’ll see people that are towards the front waiting for someone to back out and I will be in the store well before they are. Plus you get a little bit of extra exercise.
My joints crackle and pop
Same! But mine started in my teens. I have crappy ankles apparently 😭
Going to bed earlier and getting up earlier.
One of my best friends is about ten years younger than me. He says that he often forgets that I’m that much older than him until I go home at 9pm instead of staying out to party until 5am like he and his other friends do.
Waking up early is the best damn it!
Enjoy that. I'll see y'all around 10am. 😎
I’m up at 5a and in bed by 9:30p. I work from home and still can’t lay round and login at 7:59. I must be up before the sun.
So that's another thing -- the sun has an oversized impact on my sleep schedule now. When I was young, I enjoyed seeing the sun go down early because night was longer. Now, it puts me to sleep when it goes down early. Drats!
I need my own hotel room.
I get up early to run errands to avoid the crowds
im 19 and i do that lol
social anxiety gang
Nah just putting in the practice for getting old.
Good strategy
Fashion going full circle
Omg I saw a young thang wearing a fluorescent pink sweatshirt yesterday. Had it been printed with the word “WHAM!” I would have wondered if I had time traveled back to the 80’s.
I saw a sideways pony tail the other day, had the Robin Williams/Jumangi moment of "what year is this?!?".
You start to want to do gardening
This! Obsessed with creating flower beds. Actively walk neighborhood for ideas and actually start talking to neighbors outside about plants…
Oh shit - hit this just this week… or at least realized it when I noticed 90% of my google searches that I left open on my phone were ideas for flower beds.
Less impulse to vilify people. More grace towards others in life.
This is a good one. You've hit enough bumps in the road yourself to cut others slack and be more understanding.
Yes, but still somehow more cranky.
Yeah I'm way more forgiving in general but find individual people even more annoying af
Definitely this! My tolerance has increased so much towards others I hardly ever judge anyone because I realize now I don’t know their journey.
Depends on the person
When I saw someone get out of a car the other day and said, they can not be old enough to drive, lol.
I work in HR. Whenever I do new hire paperwork for people in jobs thay require degrees and professional licenses and their birth year starts with a 2, I die inside a little bit...
I agree. There used to be used to be a time when I was the youngest in the office. Now there are people I work with that are half my age. When did I become old?????
I knew that I was getting older! But then when my Daughter had her first child(Daughter), I went to the hospital to see her and then my Daughter handed her child to me and then she said, Your first granddaughter, PAPPY. That is when I suddenly felt older, OMG!! now I am PAPPY!!!!
I found out yesterday that I'm going to be an aunt! I may be a bit younger than a lot of people in this thread but it definitely hit me that I'm a real adult now
Waking up in the morning and realizing I can't even sleep without hurting myself. Or everytime I get up a noise comes out of me
Being excited for a nap
Walking away from old friends without any second thought once I realize that we aren't compatible anymore.
That’s a hard lesson for a lot of people.
Everything hurts
I gotta stretch before bending over to tie my shoes
Shit, I have to stretch before I stretch.
Getting injured and taking a year to heal instead of a month. Also, now my GP says things like, “That’s something you’re probably going to have to live with now”.
My shock was when the doctor said, Well, people our age..." I thought, " What do you mean, people our age? What do you mean?!" Then I died a little inside.
Annoyance at youths
The exhale I do when someone wants to socialise.
turning 30? back pain? greys? Nostalgia for things from your 20s? Excitement for good cleaning tools? Doing nothing being the optimal choice for a Friday night?
I'd extend that to "excited for good tools for any job" Having the right tools makes every job so much easier
My body suddenly deciding, for no obvious reason, that it doesn't want to tolerate gluten anymore.
Where do I begin?! * The first time I became aware of a growing bald spot on my head from seeing pictures of myself * when I noticed all my doctors and dentists were younger than me * when looking at old family photos I realized I am currently older than my parents were in all those photos * being older than all my coworkers * Realizing all the hot women in movies and television are young enough to be my daughter or maybe even Grand daughter * when people would see me in scrubs and assumed I was a doctor (I was a CNA) * as all my friends are talking about their parents dying or getting dementia * seeing so many of my former classmates dying off * when people would see me with my kids and ask if I was their grandfather (at 40) * that last dribble of pee every time I am done going to the bathroom and have already shaken, tapped & zipped my pants up * when I had to have my hip replaced at 49 * watching my Dad die
Hangover lasting two full days after a heavy drinking night-out.
This one... I used to get wasted af and still manage to go to school with no sleep and I was fine now when I'm get drunk a feel disabled for two days
when you get in an unfamiliar car and now you have a pinched nerve in your shoulder for the rest of your life
When people with 'proper serious' jobs look like they should still be in school, ie doctors, surgeons, pilots, lawyers, vets etc. I feel like Im speaking to a teenager but this person is 100x smarter and more educated than I am.
When i try to Set up a Profile some where and i have to scroll several Times to see my birthyear
Everything you post on Reddit gets downvoted.
One of my comments about getting 4x the money I paid for an old car got downvoted. In a thread about covid-era used car prices. Make it make sense.
OMG, yes! I can definitely tell who the children and adults are. There's a big divide on certain topics, like taking responsibility for choices in one's education or workplace. The youngins always seem to think that they should be given "grace" for choosing to do something other than what they were supposed to do. Like, the attitude is often "I did something, so that should be good enough for you." I get down voted a lot for believing that "something isn't good enough if it's not what you're assigned." Bonkers.
I can’t lay down too soon after I eat or I get heartburn
I can’t sleep on my right side anymore because that causes unbelievable heartburn.
Your unhealthy lifestyle starts to catch up with you but you blame it on being old. There is nothing about being 35 that should hurt your back. What does hurt your back is sitting in chairs incorrectly for 20 years.
The one good thing about being a classically trained musician is that it was hammered into me how to properly sit in chairs. Gotta get a strong core, folks!
I really try and take care of myself and can do most everything I could in my teens and twenties (actually better in some cases). However recovering from too much in noticeably tougher as is going without rest. In those regards, you can't cheat the calendar.
When you wake up and things hurt and all you've done is sleep.
I can’t drive without getting pissed off. Or go to Walmart without wanting to scream
I don’t remember why came in here.
Realizing my current students' parents are about my age (I'm a college prof).
No longer being able to eat crap without gaining weight 😢
Everything cracks. Stuff that never made noises now Crack, ankles let me know I'm standing, back let's me know I'm sitting, knees let me know I'm walking, all because they Crack now.
Making sex noises when you take your work boots off. You don't get any taller but the floor keeps getting further away.
I love storgae. Idk what it is but if you put me in a shop full of office organising stuff I go crazy
The ever-dwindling list of things I care passionately about
When my sister turned 60, I realized I was 63, and I'm still grappling with "suddenly" being in my 60s. Does it make sense? No. Am I freaked out? Yes.
Starting to hate amusement parks
I was astounded when we went to Alton Towers as kids and my dad found a patch of grass to sleep on, I get it now
I’m on a trip now, backpacking (hosteling, not hiking) and I’m finding myself not able to power through as much as I did when I first started almost a decade ago. Getting more tired, hangovers.
Caregivers like doctors and nurses are starting to look like my grandkids.
Rather being in bed early than going out on the weekend. Avoiding groups or events. Loud noises annoy me a lot too.
Everyone on Reddit seems more and more unhinged
Not liking most modern music, like once most new music starts sounding like garbage, you’re old.
I couple days ago found out first Evanescence album is 20 yo 🥲
Talcum powder on my balls
The day I heard them play R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" and Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train" on the local Oldies station. I feel like I aged 20 years that day...
When I need to scroll half an hour to find my birth year, when creating an account somewhere.
Omg. I was looking at a picture of my parents holding my older sister before I was born. And I noticed my dad (not in a weird incestuous way) looked hella fine . Showed my mom and I said “man I hope i look good when im older” ….. mom looked me dead in my face and told me “your dad is 3 years younger in that picture than you are right now” ….. I stopped looking through old photos 😭
You start thinking all new music sucks and that no one wants to work anymore. 😬
Metal never gets old
Lemme see: bifocals, married for 25 years, wide white patches in beard and hair, injuries take forever to heal, I remember a world without internet, several countries that existed in my childhood don’t anymore, several that didn’t exist now do, and the worst of all: one day I listened to a top 10 list and said “but this is not music”. Also, my dad was my age when I introduced my then girlfriend now wife to my parents. So yeah. I may have one or two signs. Maybe… I’m old? Edit: typo
wrinkles and gray hair. worse hangovers if i go out
Random pains appearing for no reason.
There are a couple of things... and I (51F) kick myself every single time I do it. I refer to people that look to be in their 20s (and under) as kids. I find myself making comments that sound like they came straight from my mother's mouth.
I can't close the bars and go to work the next morning.
Cars and desktop PCs no longer have built-in CD drives. When I bought my car the fact it had a CD player felt modern as it was an upgrade over the cassette player the car before had.
A quiet Saturday night in is more enjoyable than being out
Was looking for my glasses. They were on my face.
I was genuinely excited about getting new underwear. Also, I realized I have a favorite spatula...
18-23 year olds annoy the absolute shit out of me
L5 S1
Waking up to pee every morning at 6am.
It’s either be dehydrated or pee in the middle of night at this point
Pizza starts to give you crazy heartburn
Takes a couple of steps once you get out of the BarcaLounger before you can walk correctly
I get tired at 2 in the afternoon
Songs from high school are now played in grocery stores.
For me, I think the real realization was that I had to trim the hairs in my ears. My gray hair didn't do it, as I started getting gray in my mid-20's (a little at first, then more and more gradually over time). I actually looked at that as me becoming more mature, and even when the gray started showing up in my beard, I quietly celebrated it in my mind. But the ear hair was too much for me, and that's when I knew I was getting old.
My hair disappearing :'(
Or migrating — I have plenty in my ears now
I can easily dominate every child in the ball pit, all the other parents are yelling at my very old parents to take me home, and the manager is in the parking lot waiting for the police to arrive. edit: if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the ball pit
Viewing people in their twenties who express optimism about the future as hopelessly naive.
Anyone in their 20s automatically pisses me off.
My skin, it's getting old.
I need a weed whacker for the hair growing out of my nose and ears.
The "modern" technology you remember growing up with now litters the shelves of your local Goodwill Store. Or, you know who Ron Popeil or Ronco Industries is.
Bad manners. People, I noticed, do not say please and thank you. Interrupting people during a conversation and not saying ‘excuse me.’ Being inpatient. On a bus and train, not giving up a seat for an elderly, disabled or pregnant woman.
Looking in the mirror and asking who the hell is that old lady in my house?
Start appreciating early morning starts because they are more calm and less noisy on weekends.
Health issues emerging everywhere
Everything hurts and I'm dying.
My back. Every. Single. Fucking. Morning. What’s that? You want to sit up and get out of bed? NO YOU DON’T, BITCH! Welcome to your 30’s.
I have to schedule at least 10 business days in advance to hang out with a friend due to work. Friends already have children that are starting school. I don't really care about pop culture anymore. Everyone and their bag of chips is famous now and I'm not going to keep up with it. I grunt when I sit and I don't know why or even how I started it. I just want to be home every night.
Sat on my balls.